Utopia Overturned

The catastrophe of historical communism is, literally, before our eyes: the catastrophe of communism as a world movement, born from the Russian revolution, promising emancipation of the poor, the oppressed, the “wretched of the earth.” Its dissolution gathers speed, outdistancing all possible predictions.

Indisputable, however, even more than the failure of the communist regimes, is the failure of the revolution inspired by communist ideology—that is, the ideology of the ...